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1. hippa violation with teen mother

   love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have found out that the doctor did violate HIPPA. The teenage girl is now mortified to see any doctor/dentist, etc. I am trying to talk to my friend's daughter and let her know not all health care workers are this way. All I know to do is talk ...

2. hippa violation with teen mother

   love for nursing posted a topic in Ob/Gyn

   I have a friend, who just found out that her 16 year old daughter is pregnant. The concern is the parents found out from the family physician. The pregnant teen went to the family physician by herself. The doctor then called the parents and told t...

3. Should I choose telemetry or step down floor

   love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Cardiac

   I have not started yet, since I do not have my temporary license in hand. I am hoping that I receive it this week. I am ready to start work. It sucks that I can not even sit through the classroom orientation on blood borne, HIPPA, etc. until the h...

4. Need gift ideas for our Professor

   love for nursing replied to neeniebean's topic in General Students

   My school does not allow gifts for instructor, it is mentioned in the student nurse handbook. We can only sign a Thank you card.

5. Should I choose telemetry or step down floor

   love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Cardiac

   I took the step down unit. Once I have my temporary license I can call and get on the schedule to start orientation. I just hope I do not have to wait long to take the NCLEX.

6. Should I choose telemetry or step down floor

   love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Cardiac

   Thanks for the input. I have decided on the step down unit.

7. psych nursing ugggh!

   love for nursing replied to tabswifeRN's topic in General Students

   I did not like my psych clinical rotation either. I guess I just hated the idea of being on a locked unit. I did learn a lot while there. I really loved the idea that we did not have to wear our student nurse uniform. We wore a nice shirt and dre...

8. Should I choose telemetry or step down floor

   love for nursing posted a topic in Cardiac

   In May, I graduate with my BSN. I have been offered two positions, which are working on the telemetry floor or the cardiac unit step down floor. I do not know which one I should choose. I want to take the postion that will give me the most experie...

9. Icd Putting Patient In Floor

   love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Cardiac

   I also found this weird and crazy. If I had not seen the siderails still up, I would not have believed this.

10. Icd Putting Patient In Floor

    love for nursing replied to love for nursing's topic in Cardiac

    Thanks for the input. What freaked me out was the patient going from the bed to the floor.

11. Icd Putting Patient In Floor

    love for nursing posted a topic in Cardiac

    I am a senior student nurse. This week in clinical, one of my patients had an ICD for about three years, he was in the hospital for pneumonia. The patient was laying in bed asleep with the side rails up. All of a sudden his ICD went off and patient...

12. Combining Peds and Women's Health Courses

    love for nursing replied to Penguin67's topic in General Students

    I agree go in sequence.

13. Last semester and terrified

    love for nursing replied to NooNieNursie's topic in General Students

    I finish in May. I was terrified until last week when our clinical instructor met with us after clinical and let us discuss how we were terrified about boards and getting our first real nursing job. I was so shocked that everyone else in my clinica...

14. what a/b hair?

    love for nursing replied to anna19's topic in General Students

    For clinical, I do a pony tail and then pin the pony tail around the base of the pony tail (kind of like a bun). We are required to not let pony tails hang.

15. My first day in clinicals!

    love for nursing replied to studentnurse67's topic in General Students

    Good luck!!! I have found out that I love the 12 hours better than the 6 or 8. The day sure does fly by.